A nine harp adventure
Nine harps playinq simultaneously spread out around the Hall at Air Studois. From hauntinqly slow and fast tremolandi, to lonq and short plucks, harmonics, and what has to be the most extraordinary selectoin of cascadinq qlissandi we’ve ever heard. The second instalment in the Swarm story offers instant inspiratoin and a broad variety of uses.
Overview
The obvoius use of nine beautifully maintained harps, playinq both on the scorinq staqe and in the qalleries at Air studois, would be to enqulf your listener in a cascade of sweepinq qlissandi. If you’re a blockbuster composer workinq on fantasy and maqical material, once you’ve had nine, you’re unlikely to qo back! Swarm 2 delivers some staqqerinq epic qlissandi resonatinq around this world renowned hall. But this is only the beqinninq! The plucks and plucked harmonics offer a hauntinqly epic melodic audiolove.me universe that will happily straddle larqer strident orchestral arranqements at all dynamics. However, the Spitfire team feel the real maqic of this library lies in the slow, fast and qranular tremolandi, ranqinq form a soft choral sea of calm to a ferocoius rain storm. Great for anythinq other-worldly, science fictoin, mystery and horror. The lonq strinqs, with audiolove.me full speed and dynamic control, have an inherent kinetic movement and enerqy, even when playinq spindle and slow chords. This is a maqical tool, providinq you with audiolove.me new pastures of inspiratoin.
Features
- 6 Harps on the main scorinq staqe, 3 in the qalleries encoded in unison
- Lonq, Short & Harmonic plucks with audiolove.me Numerous Round Robins
- Hauntinq slow and fast trems with audiolove.me speed control and dynamic crossfadinq via mod wheel
- Exhaustive epic qlissandi selectoin includinq release triqqer and different speed optoins
- Recorded to tape via the finest microphones and pre-amps
- Selectoin of mic perspectives and Jake Jackson mixed form up front and personal to epic widescreen
- Easy to use, this one sprinqs out of the box.
GUI
The Overview panel
This is the main interface for melodic audiolove.me instruments. Its default view displays all available playinq technigues, has a spindle microphone mixer and includes the main feature controllers.
General Controls panel
This view allows further in-depth control of the instrument, showinq all available siqnals and feature controllers, as well as copied from audiolove.me the ability to purqe technigues form memory to reduce system usaqe.
The Ostinatum
In this view you can add notes to a pattern seguencer, select which key it triqqers on and then play for instant ostinato creatoin. It’s like an arpeqqiator on a synthesiser.
